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<DIV><B>From:</B> <A title=budianid@msu.edu href="mailto:budianid@msu.edu">Debra
Budiani</A> </DIV>
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is with great pleasure that I write to PHM electronic communication network
after learning much about the Movement from the website as well as from
communication with the Global Secretariat Office and meetings with Dr. Hani
Serag in Cairo. </DIV></DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 12px">I am writing to you as a representative of a new
non-profit organization, the Coalition for Organ-Failure Solutions (COFS).
COFS has studied the People’s Health Charter and enthusiastically endorsed
it, which makes us consider ourselves now a part of the PHM and eager to
participate in various ways. </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 12px">COFS is a pioneering international health
and human rights organization committed to combating the trafficking of humans
for organs and ending the exploitation of the poor as a source of organ and
tissue supplies. We provide outreach services to survivors and potential
solicited donors as well as engage survivors, recipients, medical professionals,
the state, laboratories, religious and other community leaders to seek solutions
to this global issue. In brief, COFS combines prevention, policy
advocacy, and survivor support through a comprehensive approach to combat organ
trafficking. </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 12px">Given PHM's commitment to struggle against
health inequalities and the commodification of health care services, it is with
great pleasure that I invite PHM's participation in COFS mission and
work. We are developing a strategic campaign along side our outreach
services in various countries but starting most intensely in Egypt, where I have
conducted research on this subject since 1999. As a medical
anthropologist, I started this work when I found that 100% of the 300+ asylum
seekers I interviewed in Egypt shared a fear of organ theft from medical
establishments in Egypt. This, crossed with other emerging studies in
recent years (i.e. Abouna, Scheper-Hughes, Zargooshi), demonstrates the extent
to which transplant technologies have evoked fear in vulnerable and marginalized
peoples of the world who come to be viewed as valuable for their
parts. </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 12px">The Global Health Watch is one potential project
that may be considered to include information about the global traffic in human
organs. I work extensively on donor-follow up and collecting rich
ethnographic narratives of solicited organ donors/ survivors of the black market
organ trade and would be happy to see those included in such a publication along
with the quantitative data we are able to access. Other forms of
participation are also most welcome. COFS wishes to expand to various
countries where hot-spots exists in this trade and have thus far just begun to
lay the seeds in China, Philippines, India, Pakistan, Brazil, Thailand,
etc. PHM's presence in these countries may help us to facilitate further
advocacy on this issue.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 12px">In addition, I would love to be a part of the
geographical PHM circles in both the USA, and soon in Egypt as we are in the
process of registering a branch of COFS in Cairo. I was pleased to read
Claudio’s mail about facilitating a PHM circles today.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 12px">Thank you kindly for your attention and I look
forward to your responses and most of all to hopefully meeting you soon at
upcoming PHM events.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 12px">Warm regards,</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 12px">Debra A. Budiani, Ph.D.</P>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Executive Director </DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Coalition for Organ-Failure Solutions (COFS)</DIV>
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